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The Internet will be in your contact lens. It will recognize people’s faces, display their biographies, and even translate their words into subtitles Kicho Kaku Physics of the future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

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The contemporary eye is no longer innocent. What we see is almost invariably informed by prefabricated images (Kearney 2003: 2)...there is a growing belief in certain circles that the very notion of imaginative creativity may soon be a thing of the past. We appear to have entered a postmodern civilization where the image has become less and less the expression of an individual subject and more and more the commodity of an anonymous consumerist technology (Kearney 2003:6).

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The ethical/poetical imagination reminds us that humanity has a duty, if it wishes to survive its threatened ending, to remember the past and to project a future (Kearney 2003: 392).

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Museums are empowered to transmit the world’s wisdom in a manner similar to a First Nation elder telling meaning-laden stories to her grandchild (Janes 2007: 139).